Improved carving-dish



tiuiwl @3mm CHESTER W. sYKEs, oF SUFFLELD,CoNNEoTICUT.

ALetters Patent'No. 93,844, dated August 17,1869; atellated August 13, 1869.

The Shedula referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all' whom 'it ma/y concern:

Be it known that I, O HES'DER W. SYKES, of the town of Suiiield, State of Connecticut, have invented an 1111-' proved (llarving-Dish; :tud I `do hereby declare the following' to be :tfull and exact description thereof, referenoe being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters` of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in forming, on the inner sulfaee of V'n carving-dish, points, or other projections, for the purpose of preventing meats'and other' edibles from changing positionA during the process of carving.

' my invention, I will proceed to describe its eonstruction and operation.

To enable otl'iershjskilled in the artto make and use i I consti-liet my carvingdsh with points projecting upward, as seen in sectional drawing, Figure 1, letters a a a, said points retaining the article to be carved :in the desired position'.`

That I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent. is-

The points, or other projecting surfacesglpon the inner snrfaee of a catrving-dish, to retain, in the desited position, meats and other .articles while -being carved.

CHESTER W. SYKES.

Witnesses J. E. MCINTIRE, J. MCMINN. 

